D'Addario Soundhole Guitar Tuner

[walrus]

I may be late to the party, but I never saw one of these before. Is this something any of you would use? I think it would bug me being in the soundhole like this...






walrus

 

[fronobulax]

Not seen one. Having seen damaged soundholes and rosettes I'd be unlikely to use one but as an audience member who doesn't like seeing clip on tuners on headstocks I'd approve of it on someone elses guitar. I don't know what the controls do but they are potentially awkward.

 

[twocorgis]

Not seen one. Having seen damaged soundholes and rosettes I'd be unlikely to use one but as an audience member who doesn't like seeing clip on tuners on headstocks I'd approve of it on someone elses guitar. I don't know what the controls do but they are potentially awkward.

Clip-on tuners on headstocks are a real pet peeve of mine. It ruins the aesthetic of the whole guitar I think.

 

[geoguy]

I like that it is visible to the player but not so much to anyone else.

One button turns it on/off, and the other adjusts its calibration re: A440 (or something higher or lower).

The most-obvious limitation that I can see is that it might not fit if there was soundboard bracing too close to the soundhole.

 

[RBSinTo]

Clip-on tuners on headstocks are a real pet peeve of mine. It ruins the aesthetic of the whole guitar I think.

twocorgis,
I don't see the need to keep my Snark tuner on the headstock either, especially since the clip is reputed to mar the nitro. finish, besides looking unattractive.
So I clip it on, tune up and immediately take it off.
My only audiences are our three cats, so after tuning I can either clip it to my music stand, or put it on the bed beside me.
If I was playing for audiences, it would be easy enough to attach a lanyard to the tuner so it would conveniently hang at my side for when I needed it.
RBSinTo

 

[walrus]

Right, tune up and put it somewhere. Again, an exception might be a player using multiple tunings.

And I'm with frono on the potential damage this could cause to the guitar.

walrus

 

[fronobulax]

It claims to have

a non-marring plastic mounting clip

but I've seen that claim made for soundhole pickups that managed to cause damage anyway.

 

[Roland]

I don't have the sound hole tuner but I have the micro tuner that clips onto the back of the headstock and appears to be much the same thing. I've found it to be a bit erratic with the readings and have resorted to using a seven dollar Eno ET-33 clip on tuner instead. The sight of a tuner left clipped to the head of a guitar does not assault my senses as it does some, but I take it off when I'm done tuning anyway. I guess I'm just tidy.

 

[Taylor Martin Guild]

I use these tuners.
They have replaced my Snark tuners on 3 guitars.
Not the best tuner but I like where they are located.

 

[davidbeinct]

I use one in my couch guitar and one in my travel guitar. They don’t really show and work well. They need to fit well though and the bracing in both my Guild and my Waterloo gets in the way. I never really thought about the potential for damage. I guess it could happen but it seems less likely if they fit well.

 

[Rocky]

This one is a much better option, doesn't screw up the top vibration, and is virtually invisible to the audience, expecially if your guitar has a black headstock. That soundhole one looks like a PITA to turn on and off.

 

[zulu]

No use to acoustic only players, but I clip my Snark to my amp. Never on the guitar.

 

[beecee]

Never seen it.

I have a Snark and the little D'Addario Rocky posted but I mainly use the app on my phone.

 

[Midnight Toker]

Never seen it.

I have a Snark and the little D'Addario Rocky posted but I mainly use the app on my phone.

I have a early 50's tube Conn strobe (most accurate tuner there is!), a polytune pedal, but around the house I use the GuitarTuna app on my phone the most. It is an amazing app. Covers just about every stringed instrument, every alt/open tuning, 12 string, and saves your own created custom tunings. It's by far the easiest/most versatile tuner I've ever used. And it tunes in cents! Best part...it is free!! (I did pay something like $19 for all the additional in-app tool upgrades) I highly recommend it! Best part is, you'll ALWAYS have a tuner with you!

 

[fronobulax]

Best part is, you'll ALWAYS have a tuner with you!

Not true for someone who attends events where non-silent cell phones are a faux-pas. The internet is full of performances that are interrupted by a cell phone and it turns out that a performer brought it on stage. I never want to be that guy and if the price is having the phone in a car or in the Green Room (or equivalent) I'll do it. Of course the fact that my Korg Chromatic tuner has many of the same virtues and a smaller form factor than my phone contributes to my willingness not to adopt a phone tuner ;-)

 

[Midnight Toker]

Not true for someone who attends events where non-silent cell phones are a faux-pas. The internet is full of performances that are interrupted by a cell phone and it turns out that a performer brought it on stage. I never want to be that guy and if the price is having the phone in a car or in the Green Room (or equivalent) I'll do it. Of course the fact that my Korg Chromatic tuner has many of the same virtues and a smaller form factor than my phone contributes to my willingness not to adopt a phone tuner ;-)

Any performer that has a live cellphone onstage is a dumbass! Turn you phone on airplane mode, it turns off all cell service, tuner app still works. It's not rocket science. But these apps aren't meant for performance artists.
Performers should know better. The overwhelming majority here are bedroom/basement players. IMO, clip on tuners are a waste of $ for playing at home. And if performing plugged in, go inline pedal for muted tuning. (Nobody wants to hear you tune up either)

 

[fronobulax]

Maybe because my infrastructure is Android and not Apple put there are several apps that should work in airplane mode that don't because they really want to access something off device. MP3 play back was one. The file was local but the app insisted on fetching meta data about the file (album cover, etc.) before it played and so no meta-data, no play. Switched that app out... And I live in a world where butt-dialing is still a thing and I have also butt-played music that was cued up or paused. So the only idiot-proof way for me (an idiot) not to be that guy is to not have the phone. I have had to tune on stage so your phone solution won't work for me Of less relevance but I also need to tune non-guitars so sometimes pedals or clip on tuners are just not enough.

 

[crank]

No use to acoustic only players, but I clip my Snark to my amp. Never on the guitar.

A pet peeve of mine is electric players using clip on tuners who don't turn their volume off while tuning.

A clip on snark does not ruin aesthetics for me.

 

[stormin1155]

I have them on all of my acoustics. Not because they're great tuners, but because they are so handy and inconspicuous. They will leave a mark on lacquer finishes, but it can be easily buffed out.

 

[crank]

I have a tuner on my cell phone just for those times when I forget or lose my Snark. I also have a tuner in my guitar pedal for electric and that cuts the volume out when I use it which is a nice feature.

On my G37 which is 42-years old and has been subjected to my banging her around for all 42, over half my life, I tend to leave a tuner on anytime she is out of her case. As I type this, on the wall behind me, tuner on headstock she hangs.

My 412 gets kid glove treatment tuner goes on for tuning and then either gets clipped to something else or gets lost in about equal measures.